32/10/2018
This was an idea I woke up with.
The two artists featured, Damien Hirst and Brian Bolland, were in my mind at that waking moment but most any other two with equivalent backgrounds could have served.
The idea was that the prestige of an artist can be based on their field of presentation rather than on their individual qualities and ability.

24/10/2018
Celebrating Snoopy and the Enduring Power of Peanuts

25 October 2018 – 3 March 2019
Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, London
Exhibition of comic strips and personal artefacts from the Schulz Museum plus contemporary works from contributors with a passion for Peanuts.
Peanuts was a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz .It ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000. It was a comic strip about funny kids if you like.

13/10/2018
November 12th 1947 - October 1st 2018
One of 2000AD's most regular and popular artists.
He is credited with the original visuals for Judge Dredd and was also co-creator of Strontium Dog.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/01/judge-dredd-co-creator-ca…

10/10/2018
The evening at Orbital, with the opening of an exhibition of my art work and book (and other stuff) signing, went, I think it is fair to say, well.

29/09/2018
Norman Keith Breyfogle. February 27, 1960 – September 24, 2018.
An American artist, best known for his comic book art on DC Comics' Batman, for which co-created the villains Ventriloquist and Ratcatcher with writers Alan Grant and John Wagner, and the characters Anarky, Jeremiah Arkham, Victor Zsasz, and Amygdala with Grant alone.

11/09/2018
An exhibition of some bits of my original artwork will be on show at Orbital Comics from October 5th to November 4th.

02/19/2018
Spellbound.Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft.
August 31st – January 6th
Ashmolean Museum,
Beaumont Street, Oxford
Oxfordshire OX1 2PH
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Architecture currently has, along with other treasures, an exhibition of objects relating to superstition, magical beliefs, witchcraft and the like.

20/08/2018
Hillary L. Chute is an American literary scholar and expert on comics and graphic narratives.
She is Distinguished Professor of English and Art and Design at Northeastern University.

05/08/2018
The Beano comic first appeared on 30 July 1938.
Pictured here are the few characters I could find from its early days - chosen because they were ones from my childhood so are of course the best. But Beano continued to create iconic characters throughout its long life.

27/07/2018
A comic book has been long.listed for Man Booker prize.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK. It is prestigious and influential.
The book is 'Sabrina' by Nick Drnaso.

A comic book being included among the contenders for the prize means literary people regard this book as a literary work and are passing judgment on it as such.

16/07/2018
Thought this an interesting essay - https://comicsverse.com/5-wordless-comics/

08/07/2018
Stephen John Ditko.
2.11.1927 - c. 29. 6.2018

Steve Dikto was an artist who’s ‘Dr Strange’ work had an influence on me hitherto unacknowledged even to myself
Looking at that Dr Strange cover you can perhaps see how that might be.

More at -
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/08/steve-ditko-obituary

https://www.weeklystandard.com/kevin-binversie/steve-ditko-1927-2018-hi…

24/06/2018
For broadcast on June 27th.
Following the podcast in which I was involved comes another, a follow-up, involving a distinguished panel of experts discussing the quality and content of the former. A jury of my peers sharing their thoughts and feelings on me, my work and my Essex accent.

There is to be a show of my artwork at Orbital Comics this coming October.
This will overlap with the publication of a new edition of Mazeworld from Rebellion that same month.
What artwork will be exhibited is yet to be decided but present thinking is that Mazeworld pages will predominate.

1 June-28 October 2018,
Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford
OX1 3BG

Original manuscripts, artwork, maps, letters and artefacts from the Bodleian's extensive Tolkien Archive, the Tolkien Collection at Marquette University in the USA and from private collections.- a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" to see so many Tolkien-related materials together.

More at - https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/news/2017/mar-17

16/05/2018
Astérix in Britian: The Life and Work of René Goscinny
Jewish Museum London, Raymond Burton House,129-131 Albert Street, London NW1 7NB
10 May 2018 - 30 September 2018
René Goscinny (1926 – 1977) was a French comics editor and writer of Polish descent, best known internationally for the comic book ‘Astérix’, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo.
Astérix has sold 500million copies in 150 languages and made into 100 films.

08/05/2018
After some serious too-ing and considerable fro-ing, the projected Warner TV Button Man series can now I think be announced as kaput.

23/04/2018
"Jewish Comic Con explores how Jewish identity has influenced comics, both on the page and behind the scenes. But it isn't just for the "members of the tribe". It's for everyone. It's a love letter to the creators of the comic book medium and their heroes!"

Next Sunday, April 29th at Congregation Kol Israel
603 St.

17/04/2018
A second instalment of my podcast interview with Michaell Molcher for 2000AD is due any moment now.
Wednesday April 18th to be precise.
This reminder may be appearing a little late but you know how time flies when you are having fun.

You can tune in by searching for 'Thrill-Cast' on iTunes or searching for it on your favourite podcast app.
It is also available direct through the 2000 AD website at http://2000ad.com/podcast.

April 24th - a date for the broadcast of a panel discussing what they make of what I am saying is yet to be set.

10/04/2018
A while back there was an apology for the non-appearance of the Bibliography section on this website. It was one of those things - like the inexplicable change of the blog headings typeface to one less cheery. Bibliography subsequently re-appeared . .

30/03/2018
'We Spoke Out' is a collection stories relating to the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was the Nazi Germany State's systematic assault on Jews between 1933 and 1945 - what the Nazis called the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question in Europe'. The Jews were targeted for complete extinction and six million of them died. Slavs, 'asiatics', Gypsies and other groups were also exterminated in industrialised death camps.

15/03/2018
On March 9th between 11.45 and 15.00 Michael Molcher - tall, slim, thick dark hair, black shirt, black trousers, black leather shoes, curled moustache, short pointed beard, expensive haircut.

02/03/2018
A little ago Lee Grice digitally dropped by to mention that he was curious about Button Man becoming a TV series. The reply at that time was that something was up but it was too early to say what exactly.
Now it can be told!

19/02/2018
In November 2016 ‘Elvis Lives ‘ was published. Written by Xaviant Haze. it included the Elvis Presley strip written by Angus Allan and drawn by me for ‘Look-in’ in the 1980’s.

09/02/2018
Another in the Judge Dredd Mega Collection this one gathers the stories of the women who follow in Judge Anderson's footsteps - Judge Karyn and Judge Judy Janus.Also appearing is Juliet November, not a Judge but a psychokinetic . .